--- title: Lancia · HICONIUM description: Rally’s greatest homologation specials — the Stratos wedge and the last RWD champion. canonical_url: https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/lancia image: https://hiconium.com/og/marque/lancia.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.com/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › [Manufacturers](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers) › Lancia > On this page: [The essential Lancias](#the-essential-lancias) · [Every Lancia on file](#every-lancia-on-file) · [Rally Homologation](#rally-homologation) · [Technical invention culminated in purpose-built homologation cars.](#technical-invention-culminated-in-purpose-built-homologation-cars) · [Six sketches, one lance.](#six-sketches-one-lance) ![Lancia — manufacturer stage](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/stage/lancia-v2.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) [Manufacturers  /  Lancia](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers) # Lancia Turin, Italy · est. 1906 Technical invention culminated in purpose-built homologation cars. Lancia's purpose-built road cars were created around rally homologation. Original specification and documentation separate the strongest cars from reconstructed examples. Models 3 Top value €750k Period 1906– [Explore models](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/lancia#essential) [Manufacturer profile](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/lancia#house-profile) ![Lancia — manufacturer stage](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/stage/lancia-v2.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Curated entry points ## The essential Lancias Three cars that explain the manufacturer: its origins, its engineering peak and the shape of its modern ambition. [1972–1975 ### Stratos HF Stradale The clean-sheet rally wedge that gave Lancia three straight world titles. Collectibility 93 / 100 Indicative value €650k](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/lancia/stratos-hf-stradale) [1982–1984 ### 037 Stradale The supercharged rear-drive homologation car that beat Audi to the 1983 manufacturers’ title. Collectibility 90 / 100 Indicative value €750k](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/lancia/037-stradale) [1985–1986 ### Delta S4 Stradale Twincharged Group B homologation special — 200 homologated, ≈71 believed sold. Collectibility 91 / 100 Indicative value €700k](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/lancia/delta-s4-stradale) Complete catalogue ## Every Lancia on file 3 models · 1 families By family Sort ## Rally Homologation 3 The street versions Lancia was obliged to build — a purpose-designed rally wedge and the last rear-drive world champion, both in strictly limited runs. [1972–1975 · 3 variants Stratos HF Stradale The clean-sheet rally wedge that gave Lancia three straight world titles. €650k 8 sales · median $639.29K 93 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/lancia/stratos-hf-stradale) [1982–1984 · 4 variants 037 Stradale The supercharged rear-drive homologation car that beat Audi to the 1983 manufacturers’ title. €750k 90 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/lancia/037-stradale) [1985–1986 · 2 variants Delta S4 Stradale Twincharged Group B homologation special — 200 homologated, ≈71 believed sold. €700k 91 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/lancia/delta-s4-stradale) The house ## Technical invention culminated in purpose-built homologation cars. No marque has won more world rally championships than Lancia, and the road cars it built to homologate its racers are collectibles of the first order. The Stratos was the first car ever designed for rallying from a clean sheet — a Bertone wedge around a Dino V6 that won three straight championships from 1974. The ~492 Stradale cars are pure driver-focused theatre. The 037 followed in 1982: a supercharged, mid-engined silhouette that took the 1983 makes’ title against Audi’s four-wheel-drive Quattro — the last rear-wheel-drive car ever to win the crown. The Delta S4 closed the Group B years: twincharged, four-wheel driven, a debut win at the 1985 RAC — and roughly 200 Stradales built to make it legal. When the category was banned for 1987, the S4 became the last of rallying’s homologation specials. What followed was the longest winning streak the championship has seen — six straight manufacturers’ titles for the Group A Delta, 1987 to 1992 — after world endurance titles in 1980 and 1981 had already proven the house on circuits. Founded 1906 Lancia's current history gives 27 November; older company material cites 29 November for Vincenzo Lancia and Claudio Fogolin's Turin company. Homologation output 200 Delta S4 road cars Built at Chivasso in 1985–1986 to meet the FIA minimum for the Group B competition version. Structural first Lambda, 1922 The first standard-production car with a unitised body also used independent front suspension. Documented sale €1.04 million A 2,200-kilometre 1985 Delta S4 Stradale sold at RM Sotheby's Essen auction in April 2019. Selected milestones ### A bloodline, not a list. 1. 1906 Lancia & C. is established Vincenzo Lancia and Claudio Fogolin establish the company in Turin. 2. 1922 The Lambda changes the structure Its unitised body and independent front suspension move beyond the separate-chassis convention. 3. 1950 The Aurelia introduces the production V6 Lancia puts the first series-production V6 engine into a road car and pairs it with a rear transaxle. 4. 1974 The Stratos is homologated Group 4 approval gives Lancia's purpose-built rally car its full international programme; three consecutive manufacturers' titles follow. 5. 1983 The 037 takes the manufacturers' title The rear-wheel-drive 037 secures the World Rally Championship against established four-wheel-drive opposition. 6. 1985 The Delta S4 changes the drivetrain Permanent four-wheel drive and combined supercharging and turbocharging replace the 037 formula for Group B. What defines Lancia ### Technical solutions first Lancia adopted structural and powertrain ideas early, from the Lambda's unitised body to the Aurelia's production V6. ### Competition shapes the road car The Stratos and its Group B successors were conceived around rally requirements, with road cars built for homologation. ### Road specification matters Original trim, components and documentary history define the strongest homologation examples. The mark ## Six sketches, one lance. Turin, 1911: Vincenzo Lancia asks Count Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia — artist, aristocrat, later a founder of the city’s automobile museum — for a badge, and receives six watercolour sketches back. He picks the pun: a lance flying a pennant with the name on it, lancia being Italian for lance, set over a four-spoke steering wheel with the hand throttle still on its spoke. Every mark since has been an edit of that drawing: folded into a shield in 1929, chromed for the Flaminia in 1957, flattened in 1974, stripped to the bare shield in 2007. When the 2022 team wanted a future, they went back to 1957 to find it. Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, 1911 ![Lancia crest, 1911–1929](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/lancia/logo-1911.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1911–1929 Biscaretti’s winning sketch — lance, pennant and steering wheel, hand throttle on the spoke. ![Lancia crest, 1929–1950](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/lancia/crest-1929.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1929–1950 The roundel folds into a blue shield. ![Lancia crest, 1957–1974](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/lancia/crest-1957.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1957–1974 Chromed into three dimensions for the Flaminia. ![Lancia crest, 1974–2007](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/lancia/crest-1974.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1974–2007 Flattened to silver, white and blue — the last detail lines pared away. ![Lancia crest, 2007–2022](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/lancia/crest-2007.png.w1920.q75.webp) 2007–2022 The lance and flag put away — shield, ring and the name alone. ![Lancia crest, 2022–](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/lancia/crest-2022.png.w1920.q75.webp) 2022– The Pu+Ra redraw under Jean-Pierre Ploué — flag and lance recovered from the 1957 badge.